HCL Connections Ideas Portal

Welcome to the HCL Connections Product Ideas Lab! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by the HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.

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    Dogear: Support retrieval of favicon through Proxy-Server w/o having set reader role to Everyone

    As of Connections 6.0 CR2 it is not possible to retrieve favicons in Dogear through a configured Proxy Server without having the need to set the Dogear reader role to Everyone. Doing so result ins Dogear being accessible for even anonymous users, ...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 No Plans to Implement

    Support Responsive images

    ConNext does not seem to support responsive images with attributes max-width=95%; height:auto; See https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_image_responsive.asp It would be great to have this supported for not having to bother about image width.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Under Consideration

    IBM Editor Hotkey to switch to HTML Source

    I would much appreciate if the IBM ConnectionsEditor were providing an Hotkey to switch to the HTML Source view like the textbox.io with Ctrl+Shift+U.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 Needs Clarification

    Support for Forms based authentication for iCal feed in SiteMinder protected deployment

    For SiteMinder protected environments, the iCal feed at /communities/calendar/ical requires Basic Authentication. This request is for adding support for Forms based authentication for this resource.
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 1 Needs Review

    Creating of externally shared communities should only be possible for community administrators

    In general we do not allow the normal user to create restricted communities and have configured that only users with the role of the community administrators are allowed to create restricted communities. That all users that should be allowed to cr...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Under Consideration

    Improved search - search for content liked by me

    In the Advanced search I would like the possibility to filter the search results by content I have liked.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Future Consideration

    Advanced Search - search by multiple tags

    In the Advanced search, it shall be possible to enter in the tag box multiple tags e.g. separating each tags by a blank/ space. While entering an other tag autocomplete shall work as for a single tag. Currently you can only enter one single tag in...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Global Metrics for Communities

    It would be helpful to have a general metric, so as to see the comparison between different communities, in terms of traffic, most-read topics, etc.
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 0 Under Consideration

    Provide an option to sort bookmarks by frequency of usage

    Please implement the option to sort bookmarks not only by popularity (i.e. how wide spread a bookmark is between Connections users), but also by frequency of usage (e.g. clicks per month)— Regarding the click-per-month frequency could be checked p...
    over 7 years ago in 13. Other 1 No Plans to Implement

    (administrator) Option to set the opening of internet-links to "open in a new tab or window" as default

    Users have problems with navigation in the system after the opened a (external) link to another page from within IBM Connections. Now it is defaulted to opening in de same tab/window. We prefer opening in a new tab/windows so that the user can eas...
    over 7 years ago in 02. Communities 0 Future Consideration
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